Critics blame plastic bag ban for ‘man-made’ hepatitis crisis in San Diego

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Some critics of San Diego’s response to a deadly outbreak of Hepatitis A among the homeless population are placing partial blame on the recent plastic bag ban. Local NPR station KPBS reports that in July 2016, the San Diego City Council voted to ban “single-use” plastic bags after environmental activists pushed to eliminate the paper-thin bags, claiming they were an eyesore on city streets as well as a threat to sea turtles and other ocean creatures.

That coincides with San Diego’s 14% spike in homelessness, brought on in part by a policy change that resulted in a massive reduction in available transitional housing (offered by hotels and motels), as well as by Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s elimination of the large tents used to shelter homeless people throughout the cold winter months.

"The reason the outbreak has spread so rapidly is because homeless are living in more concentrated areas,” said Dr. Jeffrey Norris, the St. Vincent De Paul medical director who has been managing the charity’s response to the public health threat. “They often have to defecate in their tent, or next to their tent, and that exposes their neighbors on the street. Hygiene becomes incredibly difficulty.”

By “taking away a manageable alternative to defecating outside a bathroom,” the article suggests county health workers have been forced to play catch up and spend more money “handing out thousands of ‘hygiene kits’ that include plastic bags.”

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One of the great Homeless pastimes was to shit in the ubiquitous plastic bags and have contests to see who could throw them the farthest or the highest onto people's roofs in downtown areas of CA. Here in Orange County CA we have a large Latino population so they're popped up into the air on one toe and kicked up on the roofs with the other foot, soccer style.